Annual Log Raising

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Hilltop Log & Timber Homes Annual Log Raising and Home Planning Event takes place the third Saturday each June. Hilltop’s Annual Event is scheduled for Saturday, June 21, 2008 from 9:00am through 3:30pm. This all-day free event includes:

Construction Demonstrations of actual log and hybrid post & beam homes;
Live Custom Drafting Demonstrations;
Home Planning Seminars;
Custom Design & Drafting Seminars;
An Energy Efficient “Green” Choice Seminar
Model home tours;
Lunch;
Games and…
Raffles for various prizes including a GRAND prize of 100 gallons of home heating oil!!

For prize eligibility, you must pre-register and be present to win.

The day is packed with information to aid attendees in the process of planning their dream home. Home product specialists, realtors, builders and client advisors are available to provide turnkey solutions for your new home. For details or to register call 800-622-4608 or email hilltop@yourhilltophome.com

 6^th ANNUAL LOG RAISING EVENT, Sat. June 23^th 2007
Photo's from the 2007 event listed below
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Hilltop Log & Timber Home registered attendees take part in Grand Prize raffles for a Dewalt Drill, $100 LL Bean Gift Certificate and loaded tool belt with tools. Congratulations to Hilltop’s Dewalt Drill winner!

Construction of Hillltop’s Structural Insulated Panel (SIPs) home is demonstrated live. The energy efficient walls (R-25) allow for flexibility in exterior siding choices from log profile to cedar shakes or clapboard. Likewise, interiors may be finished in drywall, wood or any other material the client desires. Principal Hilltop Builders construct a small log home structure while 6th Annual Log Raising attendees observe. Hilltop’s exclusive Triple Seal system is demonstrated through each course of log assembly.

Hilltop Log & Timber Homes 6th Annual Log Raising attendees join an educational home planning seminar that identifies choices in construction methods and style. Hilltop owners, Cathy and Dan McKenna pose with disc jockey, Leif Erickson of 107.5 Frank FM who broadcast from Hilltop’s 6th Annual Log Raising.

Contestants prepare for Hilltop’s Log-Hog Challenge—a battle of the sexes where women drill in and remove log-hog screws while men hammer in nails to see who can finish first! Congratulations to our winning lady volunteer!

Window and door bucks are placed as courses of logs continue to be built around them.

Hilltop Log & Timber Homes 6th Annual Log Raising treated its guests to burgers, hot dogs, barbequed chicken, chips, fruit, donuts, coffee and cold drinks. Attendees gathered at tables, relaxing and while flipping through floor plan books and awaiting the next seminar presentation.

Attentive Hilltop Custom Design Seminar attendees listen to a presentation complete with a virtual home tour.

SIP Panel construction underway. A good choice for an energy efficient post & beam design with lots of flexibility for custom interiors and exteriors. A crew of experienced Hilltop log home builders construct a small log home while log raising attendees look on and ask questions. Pre-cut and pre-numbered SIPs lie beside pre-cut and pre-numbered logs, awaiting construction.

Hilltop Authorized Representatives, Dean Clark of Log Homes Unlimited in Northern New Hampshire (standing) and John Losier of Alpine Ridge in Coos County New Hampshire and Oxford Maine (kneeling) discuss Hilltop’s corner construction. Hilltop’s 6th Annual Log Raising attendees watch while a log structure and SIP structure are created side-by-side.